Word: quota
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...slow it down further, NMFS announced last spring that it was cutting this year's quota for large coastal sharks by 50%, to 1,285 metric tons, as well as establishing the first quota ever for small coastal sharks and banning commercial harvests of five species considered especially prone to overfishing--whale, basking, white, sand tiger and bigeye sand tiger. Outraged fishermen have responded by suing the Secretary of Commerce. Conservation is important, agrees Robert Spaeth, head of the Southern Offshore Fishing Association, but he argues that shark populations are difficult to count accurately--an assertion biologists agree with...
...been burned and a court order has been distributed. But the Alaska-bound ferry Malaspina loaded with American tourists remains hemmed in by a tiny armada of Canadian fishing boats at Prince Rupert. The vigilantes are protesting Alaskan catches of the premier salmon as they swim toward Canada. Since quota negotiations between the neighbors collapsed last month, the Canadians say, their Alaskan counterparts have taken far more than their share of the prized fish, threatening to put the Canadian fishermen out of work. That has stirred up some memories. "Canadians have learned bitter lessons from the unemployment that happened...
...stated that, if anything, the end of the quota system will result in an even greater proportion of Asian-Americans on California campuses...
Although Lim said she doesn't believe in the quota system, she wishes that an alternate system had been found before the previous one was abolished...
While we are pleased that increasing numbers of women are admitted to Harvard each year, we do not believe that the College should aim to achieve a gender quota as the staff implies. The only just way to achieve gender equity is through a College policy of recruiting talented women and men with equal vigor and evaluating applications on a gender-blind basis. --Dan S. Aibel '98 --Alex M. Carter '00 --Missy R. Langsam '00 --Noah D. Oppenheim...